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kind bear berries all tlie year round, and have 
heavier crops than the Arabian. 
2 . “ I suppose you know what a pulper is?” 
“Certainly,” I replied; “it is a machine for 
clearing the pulp of the berries from the seeds.” 
3. “ A pulper has a rough roller, which crushes 
the berries as they are passed through the machine,” 
continued Mr. Hood. “ Below the roller is a 
sloping sieve, down which the smashed pulp rolls 
away, while the beans pass through it. 
4. “ After leaving the machine, the seeds are 
sticky with the remains of the pulp; and to cleanse 
them we placed them in a tank for a day or two, 
during which time the pulpy matter softened and 
decayed, so that it could be easily washed away. 
Then the seeds were dried in the sun on a cement- 
platform (called a ‘ barbecue ’), until they were 
very hard and brittle, as good parchment -coffee 
ought to be. 
5. “Next we had to see to the ‘milling’ of the 
beans, by which we cleared from them, in the mill, 
both the parchment and the inner covering, or silver- 
skin. Some planters do not undertake this work, 
but ship off their coffee in the husk or parchment. 
6. “ After the milling came the winnowing, by 
which the broken skins were blown away from the 
beans.” 
“So at last you got the coffee for which you had 
undertaken so much trouble,” said I. “There seems 
